An apparatus and method for transmitting Uplink Control Information over a Physical Uplink Control CHannel in a communication system. The method also comprises applying the deposition rate model to modify the metal deposition processing to form the metal layer to have a desired thickness. The selection of the time-averaged DC offset can be done depending on whether the receiver operates in a frequency hop mode or not. 75 gcm3, thereby making it possible to improve both the creep resistance and the adhesiveness between the films of the expanded porous PTFE film-laminated sheet. The LMQ stores an offset indicating a first miss at the offset within a cache line. A first layer the major component of which is carbon and a second layer the major component of which is filmy material having lithium ion conductivity are stacked on copper foil.